MATLAB Plot Gallery

MATLAB Plot Gallery

The MATLAB plot gallery provides various examples to display data graphically in MATLAB. Click Launch example below to open and run the live script examples in your browser with MATLAB Online™.

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Learn the Basics

Basic Plotting Function Programmatically

Animation
Contour Plots
Data Distribution Plots
Discrete Data Plots
Geographic Plots
Images
Line Plots
Polar Plots
Scatter and Bubble Charts
Surface and Mesh Plots
Vector Fields
Volume Visualization

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Animation

Animated Line

animatedline

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Comet

comet

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Comet3

comet3

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Contour Plots

contour

contour

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contourf

contourf

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contour3

contour3

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contourslice

contourslice

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fcontour

fcontour

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Data Distribution Plots

bubblecloud

bubblecloud

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heatmap

heatmap

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histogram

histogram

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histogram2

histogram2

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parallelplot

parallelplot

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pie

pie

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pie3

pie3

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plotmatrix

plotmatrix

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scatterhistogram

scatterhistogram

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wordcloud

wordcloud

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Discrete Data Plots

bar

bar

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bar3

bar3

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bar3h

bar3h

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barh

barh

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pareto

pareto

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stem

stem

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stem3

stem3

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Geographic Plots

geobubble

geobubble

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geoplot

geoplot

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geoscatter

geoscatter

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Images

image

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imagesc

imagesc

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Line Plots

area

area

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errorbar

errorbar

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fimplicit

fimplicit

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fplot

fplot

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fplot3

fplot3

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loglog

loglog

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plot

plot

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plot3

plot3

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semilogx

semilogx

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semilogy

semilogy

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stackedplot

stackedplot

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stairs

stairs

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Polar Plots

compass

compass

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ezpolar

ezpolar

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polarbubblechart

polarbubblechart

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polarhistogram

polarhistogram

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polarplot

polarplot

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polarscatter

polarscatter

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Scatter and Bubble Charts

bubblechart

bubblechart

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bubblechart3

bubblechart3

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scatter

scatter

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scatter3

scatter3

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spy

spy

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swarmchart

swarmchart

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swarmchart3

swarmchart3

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Surface and Mesh Plots

fimplicit3

fimplicit3

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fmesh

fmesh

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fsurf

fsurf

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mesh

mesh

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meshc

meshc

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meshz

meshz

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pcolor

pcolor

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ribbon

ribbon

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surf

surf

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surfc

surfc

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surfl

surfl

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waterfall

waterfall

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Vector Fields

feather

feather

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quiver

quiver

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quiver3

quiver3

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Volume Visualization

coneplot

coneplot

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slice

slice

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streamline

streamline

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streamparticles

streamparticles

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streamribbon

streamribbon

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streamslice

streamslice

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streamtube

streamtube

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